Full fashioned stockings with anti-run devices



Oct. 11,1960 A. R. PARTHUM 2,955,445

FULL FASHIONED STOCKINGS WITH ANTI-RUN DEVICES Filed May 24, 1955 5Sheets$heet 1 INVENTOR Alb/n R. Parf/vum,

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FULL FASHIONED s'rocxmcs WITH ANTI-RUN DEVICES 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 FiledMay 24, 1955 T AILBIN R. PART/rum I/vvmme A TTORNE Y5 0s 1960 A. R.PARTHUM 2,955,445

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FULL FASHIONED STOCKINGS WITH ANTI-RUN DEVICES 5 Sheets-Sheet 4 FiledMay 24, 1955 INVENTOR Alb/n Richard Parfhum e v Mlwlwrftfig M PMArm/always Oct. 11, 1960 A. R. PARTHUM 2,955,445 FULL FASHIONEDSTOCKINGS wrm ANTI-RUN DEVICES Filed May 24, 1955 5 Sheets-Sheet 5INVENTOR. Alb/h Rich rd Parr/rum A TTORNE Y8 syn/M M/MUfliwdstateslatemp The present invention concerns a method of procedureand an apparatus forthe production on a modified con ventional fullfashioned knitting machine (cotton machine) of stockings with anti-rundevices, and stockings produced in accordance withthis method of pro- 1is held cedure. The stockings made in accordance with this method ofprocedure havereinforced feet.

A'feature of a stocking in accordance with the invention'is thatduringits'knitting on the full. fashioned knitting machine thereareknitted special anti-run threads along the whole of the edge of thefoot reinforcement or solely along-the edge "of the toe' reinforcementwhich anti-run threads by being transferred from one or more wales toother wales, form-cross-binding stitches at the points of crossing. Thestockings ordinary meshes hereby becomef filledwith more than twothreads, by which means there is formeda kind of stopper, whichprevents-running upwards or downwards. The prevention of running upwardsis of "the greatest importance;

'The stopper eflect of fthes'e anti-run threads can be increased bymaking these especially thick and one can 'contingently use threads of-adifferent kind from that used for the remainder of the stocking, forinstance 'h'eavier thre'ads' of fcre'pe nylon, artificial silk, cottonor woolb e The transfer of the anti-run threads from one needle waletoanother is carried out by the lateral displacement in the frame ofthe, thread guides for these threads.

The anti-run threads form lines walewise in the longitudinalllength ofthe .stocking, .or. if they are displaced theselines fbrmrowsobliquetothe direction of the Wales; The walesareoifsetfrom each other at certainintervals, the amount. ofwhich can vary from .a single coursejtos'everalcourses.

Such a stockingnwill, retain itselasticity in all directions. he. mhod... ofnprocedure according t the present i vent on s: ai' impl ,..rand. and. advan ag us m th d of producingstopkings, that are securedagainst running by means of anti-run devices, whose meshes in the mainlie on top of the body meshes of the stocking with which they areknittedtogether mesh by mesh. 1 5

For the it is advantageous in accordance with the invention that theknitting machine shall have a double set of thread guides, working oneabove the other, and each having more than one tube or more than onethread guide with an eye, and which can be moved in opposite directionsto each other for forming anti-run stitches in individual courses.

The drawing shows diagrammatically some embodiments of parts of aknitting machine in accordance with the invention and variousembodiments of stockings produced in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 1 shows a thread guide holder with three thread guiding tubes,

Fig. 2 a thread guide holder with four thread guides,

Fig. 3 a side elevation view of Fig. 2,

u for the anti-ru coursesij production of the lines of the antiflmdevices Patented Qct. 11', 1960 Fig. a thread guiding tube and sinkerand divider,

Fig. '5 vathread guide and sinker and divider,

Fig. 6 a spring wire bracket with accessories,

Figs. 7-9 show anti-run threads forming various types of meshes,

Figs. 10, 11 and 12 various stockings laid out flat, and

Fig. 13 a stocking sewed together and pulled over a model foot.

In Fig. 1 a thread guide holder for adding the anti-run threads isrepresented by 1, and this has an opening 2 and below carries threeordinary thread guides 3, through which threads 4 are led. The threadguide holders are attached to a thread guide steel rod or a rail, whichcan be moved laterally along the needle frame in both directions. In itsposition of rest the thread guide holder outside the needle'frame, butduring operation it is held in the requisite place in the needle frame,where it can be moved in the requisite manner.

Figs. '2 and 3 show an alternate means for adding the anti-run thread.In this means, which is also mounted on a thread guide rail, a threadguide holder is designated by 5, and this has an opening 6 and belowcarries four so-called thread guides. A thread guide 7 has the form ofan angle with a short leg 8 and a longer leg 9. V At'the" angle islocated an eye by means of which the thread guide can be located on andturnably held by a shaft 11, which in any suitable manner is attached tothe thread guide holder laterally of the opening 6. An eye 12-.islocated on the long leg 9 by means of which the thread guide can befastened to a pin 13 which can he slid in through holes 14 bored in thethread guide holder 5, and from which holes it is easily retractable asrequired. In the operative position of the guide a thread can 'easily.be threaded through an eye 15 on the short leg 8, but it is first afterthe pin 13 has been re tracted that the guide can be swung out to theposition shown in Fig. 3' exposing an eye 16 on the long leg, so that athread 4 may easily be threaded.

In Fig. 4 are shown the positions of the first formof thread guide tube,.a high sinker 17 and a low divider 18. The thread guide extends down toa point just above a divider 18, althoughthe thread 4 can be caught bythe sinker and by the divider.

As is seen in Fig. 5 the second form of thread guide 7 extends'downbelow the top of the sinker 18 andits thread corresponding to thread 4in Fig. 3, can be caught by both the sinker and the divider. ,A steelneedle is designated by 20.

In Fig. dis shown a tension device for a thread 4.

, e thread is led from a spool over a braking device 19 2 of anysuitable type, and further over a bendable spring wire bracket 19b to athread guide 7. By this means it-is possible to maintain a suitabletension on the thread during "the ,whole of the knitting. In Figs. 7, 8and 9 are shown various mesh systems Fig. 7 shows for the sake ofclarity only a single Wale containing the meshes 21 and 22 produced byonly one thread guide 7 similar to those shown in Figs. 2 and 3, thewale containing five meshes. In the production of the fifth mesh thethread guide is displaced adistance of two wales to the right so that acourse is formed consisting of the last mesh 22 in the Wale, anintermediate mesh 23 and the first mesh 24 in a new wale. The bodymeshes of the stocking itself are not shown.

Fig. 8 shows a mesh system consisting of three wales 25-28, 2629 and27-30, of the type shown in Fig. 7. The system is knitted by means of athread guide means with three guides therein, which each deliver threadto their own wale. The three wales 25, 26 and 27 are first knitted. Toform course 28, 29, 30, 31a, 32a the thread guide is dispaced. to theright a distance of two wales. This causes the formation ofcross-binding meshes 29, 30 and 31a, and the ordinary mesh 32a in thatthe anti-run thread from mesh 28 crosses the threads from meshes 29 and30 and therefore forms the wale SO 27a. The thread from mesh 29, crossesthe threads from wale 27,30, 27a and forms mesh 3 1a The thread fromwale 30 forms mesh 32a. Hereafter the Wales 3141, 31 and 32a, 32 areformed. The cross-binding meshes 31 and 32 are formed in similar way asset forth above.

In Fig, 9 is shown a system of meshes knitted, by a thread guide withthree thread guiding tubes, each of which delivers a thread to two steelneedles. After knitting the double wales 33, 34 and 35 the thread guideis displaced the width of two wales to the right. In the course 36, 37,38, 39, 40, there are formed crossbinding meshes at the wales 34, 33aand 35, 33b and the double wales part 37, 38, 33a and 39, 40, 42, 43 aswell as the new double wale 35a 44, 45 are knitted with the threads fromwales 33,34 and 35 respectively. When course 41, 41a is knitted, thethread guide is again moved two wales to the right, after which wales42, 43, 33b and 44, 45, 34b as well as the new double wale 41a, 35b areknitted with the use of threads from wales 33, 34 and 35 respectively.

In Figs. 10, 11 and 12 are shown stockings laid out flat, as they aredelivered'from the knitting machine and before they are stitchedtogether along the seam and under the foot. A re-inforced portion 46 ofthe stocking at the heel and the foot is shown hatched. In Fig. thereare shown just over the re-inforced heel portion 47 three lines ofanti-run threads 48, 49, 50 which from the edge 51 of the stocking areled diagonally for a suitable distance and then stepwise down towardsthe centre of the stocking, so that they prevent running from the heelportion 47. The anti-run line 50 follows the inner edge of the heelre-inforcement forming a wale. It can however also be'located bothwithin the reinforcement, or aswith the lines or wales 49"a'nd 50,formed by means of anti-run threads lie a suitable distance outside thereinforcement, for instance parallel with the inner edge and closer into the center of the stocking, by which meansa special pattern effect isobtained.' Towards the toe portion of the stocking the reinforcement 46approaches the center line of the stocking in steps and the lines ofanti-run threads 48, 49, 5 0 follow the edge of the reinforced por-tiomso that these lines meet and may cross each other.

In Fig. 11 is shown a stocking with a heel portion of ordinary kind, andwhere only the angle-shaped part of the anti-run course or courses atthe toe portion is shown knitted. i 3 i 7 Similarly in Fig. 12 is showna stocking with an ordinary heel portion, where only the inner part ofthe angle-shaped part'of the lines of the anti-rundevice is shownknitted. To obtain a special reinforcement of the toeportion,'especially as regards the big'toe, the anti-run lines arecontinued past their point of intersection, so that a cross is formed,the arms of which may have any chosen suitable length.

Fig. 13 shows a stocking in accordance. with Fig. 10 assembled andmounted on a model foot.

What I claim is:

l. A full fashioned stocking having a foot reinforcement and having rowsof courses of anti-run threads knitted into the meshes of the body ofthe said stocking which rows commence at the beginning of the heelreinforcement and extend diagonally inwardly a predeterminded distanceon the stocking and then continue down in the direction of the walesofthe body of the stocking and alongto the edge of the foot portion ofthe reinforcement to the toe'portioh' alio i g'"the' edge' of which theycontinue to the middle of the foot of the stocking.

2. A full fashioned sto n hav ng 4 t reinforcement and having rows ofcourses knitted of anti-run threads knitted into'the rn e she's of thebody of the said stocking on the right and left hand side of the footportion of the said' stocking in which the said rows cross each other onthe middle line of the foot adjacent the toe thereof and extend a littledistance into the said reinforcement.

A full fashioned stocking having a toe and foot reinforc emen't knittedinto the meshes of the body of the stocking by means of anti-run threadsforming rows of courses, said anti-run threads beingpositioned alongeach leg of said meshes, said rows extending from themi'ddle part of theinner edge of the toe reinforcement and following said inner edge andthe edge of the foot reinforcement ad oining the toe reinforcement alongat least part of its length.

4. A full fashioned stocking having a toe, foot and heel reinforcementknitted into the meshes of the of the stocking by means of anti-runthreads and forming rows of courses, the anti-run threads extendingalong the legs of said meshes, said rows commencing above the top of theheel reinforcement on the back portion of the stocking and extendingobliquely to the front edge of said heel reinforcement and downwardly tothe edge of the foot reinforcement, along the foot reinforcement to theedge of the toe reinforcement and then to the middle part of the foot ofthe stocking along the edge of the toe reinforcement.

5. A full fashionedstocking as claimed in claim 1 in which the anti-runthreads are artificial crepe threads of a polyamide.

References Cited in the file of patent UNITED STATES PATENTS GermanyAug. 18, 1928

